Oregon State University

With Portland's reputation as a progressive city, I wonder why there is no pushback against the University of Oregon/Oregon State University football game being called "The Civil War"? This name apparently came into favor in the 1930s. But 80 years later, is it still appropriate to reference the fight over slavery in the naming of a football game? I...
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By Bruce Mate Contrary to what you may have heard, Oregon State University can save more lives — and advance coastal safety — by building its next marine studies facility within a tsunami zone in Newport. I was assigned to work at OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport in 1975. As a marine biologist, working so close to the...
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